Corset-spring



M. P. BRAY.

CORSET SPRING.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan. 9, 1883.

ilNtTED STATES PATENT FFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, on NEW HAVEN, ASSI-GNOR TO 1'. w. BlRDSEYE, or

' BRIDGEPOBT, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 270,380, dated January 9, 1883.

' Application filed October 23, 188-2. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS l. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements lll Corset-Springs; and Ido hereby declare the lollowing, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters ofret'erence marked thereon, to be a full, clear. and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a rear view of the back of the corset; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the stay; Fig. 3, a transverse section of the corset with the stay introduced into thepocket and the eyelets through the pocket and fabric part of the stay, said Figs. 2 and 3 enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvementin stays for the back or lacing section of a corset, and is an improvement on the invention for which Letters Patent were granted to me, dated April 4, 1882, No. 255,924. In that invention two stays areemployed,arranged parallel with each other, leaving a space between, and inclosed by a. covering which forms a web between the two stays, the two stays completing the back-stay for the corset, and when the said stay is introduced into the broad pocket inthe back of the corset eyelet-s are introduced through the thicknesses of the corset and through the web between the two parallel stays, thus securingthe back-stay in place and re-en orcing the support for the eyelets.

The object of my presentinvention is to dispense with one ot the parallel bones or stays, which, with the web, make up the broad stay of my previous invention; and it consists in a single bone orstay inclosedin a covering which extends to one side of the stay, forming a fabric edge to the stay, and which fabric edge and stay together form a broad stay for the back, and so that when the stay is inserted in the broad pocket at the rear edge of the corset the eyelets are introduced through the two thicknesses of the corset and through the fabric'edge of the stay, as more fully hereinafter described.

The bone or principal stiffening part of the back stay is represented at a, Fig. 2. This is inclosed by a fabric covering, the covering doubled around thestay, andextendingoverthe opposite edge to form a fabric extension, I). The covering material may be cloth, paper, or paper and cloth combined, it only being essential thatit shall be of a fabricated character, and which will be easily penetrated by thee-yeleting apparatus. The width of the fabric portion I) of the stay is sufficient to receive the eyelets, which are to be introduced through the back section. In the back section of the corset a pocket, I), is made, corresponding in width to the combined bone and fabric stay, as seen in Fig. 3. The pocket is made by running a line of stitches through the two thicknesses or doubled fabric, as ate. The stay isintroduced into the pocket thus formed in the usual manner ofintroducing such stays; then eyelets are introduced through the two thicknesses of the pocket and through the fabric portion 1) of the stiy, as seen at f, Figs. 1 and 3. This construction gives a vtirm support or re ento'rcement to the eyelets and avoids the necessity of the two parallel bones employed in my previous patent.

1 claim-- The herein-described improvement in cor sets, consisting of the back-stay, composed of the spring a, inclosed by a fabric covering, the said covering extending beyond one edge of the spring to form the fabric part I) of the stay, the said stay arranged in a pocket at the rearedge of the corset, combined with eyelets introduced through the fabric of the pocket and through the fabric portion of the stay, substantially as described.

MORRIS P. BRAY.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, Jos. O. EARLE. 

